Media Bio

Tanya J. Peterson created Wellbeing & Words to empower people to transcend challenges, create a quality life regardless of circumstances, and to provide an opportunity for relaxation and enjoyment.

Peterson is credentialed as a National Certified Counselor, and she has both personal and professional experience with mental health care. Tanya J. Peterson is a prolific writer of books and articles that both inform and entertain.

Her self-help books take people on journeys to wellbeing, discovering and using mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, and other tools for being.

Peterson’s novels center on the struggles and triumphs of living with various mental health challenges. Two novels have been named to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014 and 2016. One received the Storytellers Campfire Marble Book Award for being a book that makes a “significant difference in the world.” Her novels are recommended and acclaimed by such sources as The Midwest Book Review, Kirkus Reviews, The U.S. Review of Books, and The San Francisco Book Review.

She also writes extensively for HealthyPlace.com, one of the largest consumer mental health sites on the web. Peterson has written articles appearing in various online and print sources, including a regular psychology column in London’s Modern Woman magazine.

Tanya J. Peterson speaks and presents in multiple locations both in her home state of Oregon and nationally about mental health, wellbeing, and books. Venus include, but aren’t limited to, community mental health centers, schools, libraries, large bookstores such as Barnes & Noble, and small, independent bookstores.

Her newest addition to her family of self-help books is The Mindfulness Journal for Anxiety. It’s available for preorder now, and it will be in hands on December 25, 2018.